The Microeconomic Mode: Political Subjectivity in Contemporary Popular Aesthetics

by JaneElliott (Author), Jane Elliott (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $79.88

  Literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. Jane Elliott analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic phenomenon, which she calls the microeconomic mode, through close readings that show how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.